On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 7:07 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > > On 2022-Apr-28, David G. Johnston wrote: > > >> The page could use a hyperlink/cross-reference to the pg_hba.conf > >> documentation. > > > That's easily fixed. How about the attached patch? > > That part's OK, but personally I'd only have cited the link once. > > Agreed, one or three, including the local-only option but ignoring the host-only one seems like a mistake.
I would just document the -A/--auth-method option, the other two are close enough in space to borrow it just fine. Shall we do a return link from the pg_hba.conf to initdb? The first paragraph already has: "A default pg_hba.conf file is installed when the data directory is initialized by initdb." David J.
